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2024 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 700c - Health Insurance
Section 38a-477ll. - Coverage for health enhancement programs.

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CT Gen Stat § 38a-477ll. (2024)
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(a) For the purposes of this section, “health enhancement program” means a health benefit program that ensures access and removes barriers to essential, high-value clinical services.

(b) (1) Not later than January 1, 2024, each insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, fraternal benefit society or other entity that delivers, issues for delivery, renews, amends or continues in this state an individual or group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 shall develop not less than two health enhancement programs under such policy.

(2) Each health enhancement program developed pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall:

(A) Be available to each insured under the individual or group health insurance policy; and

(B) Provide to each insured under the individual or group health insurance policy incentives that are directly related to the provision of health insurance coverage, provided such insured chooses to complete certain preventive examinations and screenings recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force with a rating of “A” or “B”.

(3) No health enhancement program developed pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall impose any penalty or other negative incentive on an insured under the individual or group health insurance policy nor shall any insured be required to participate in a health enhancement program.

(c) Each individual health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state shall include coverage for the health enhancement programs that the insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, fraternal benefit society or other entity that delivered, issued, renewed, amended or continued such policy developed pursuant to this section.

(d) Each group health insurance policy providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (11) and (12) of section 38a-469 delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, amended or continued in this state shall include coverage for the health enhancement programs that the insurer, health care center, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, fraternal benefit society or other entity that delivered, issued, renewed, amended or continued such policy developed pursuant to this section.

(e) The Insurance Commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 22-118, S. 224.)

History: P.A. 22-118 effective January 1, 2023.

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